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Addressing the Urgent Need for Direct Climate Cooling: Rationale and Options

Oxford Open Climate Change in an article "Addressing the Urgent Need for Direct Climate Cooling: Rationale and Options", argues "Only direct climate cooling has the potential to avert continued temperature rise in the near term and moderate at least some projected climate change disruption including extreme weather, sea level rise, loss of sea ice, glacier and permafrost melting, and coral reef die-off”. Of the 14 cooling options offered, only one is a low-cost replacement for fossil fuels.